Images from the Father and Son projectwill be featured in DER GREIF issue 9 and OFF the wall issue 10. Both magazines will be releasedin Arles, France during the Rencontres d'Arles 2016 festival!!

Der Greif is a Print- and Online-Magazine for Photography and Literature featuring and combining the work of photographers and authors from all over the world. Issue 9 will feature the works of 140 photographers and authors. Father and Son works were selected to issue 9 troughopen call. More than 3.000 photographers and authors from more than 100 countries have submitted around 10.000 artworks.

OFF the wall is 10 issue magazine projectfrom Paris created by Anna Alix Koffi. In off the wallmagazine emerging talents meet the archives from established photographers. You can find the magazine from the museum shops all around the world including : Palais de Tokyo, Paris, The Photographers gallery, London and ICP New York.

Sami Parkkinen’s photograph of his son Arvi, 2014 is now all over the streets of London. The picture was the only Finnish image chosen for Taylor Wessing photographic portrait award exhibition at National Portrait Gallery in London. All together the competition got over 4000 submissions. Parkkinen’s photograph was chosen to feature in the posters for the exhibition and on the cover of the exhibition catalogue.

Sami Parkkinen is one of the artists in a group exhibition Nature and More at Kunsthalle Rostock in Germany.The exhibition opens on the 28th of June and it will be on show until the 14th of September 2014.